Elegance Quotes
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If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra orchid... One wants... But one so seldom gets what one wants, does one?
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Elegance is like manners. You can’t be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day of the week. If you are not, then it’s another matter.
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come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain
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Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit.
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I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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Elegance is very dangerous. It's like TNT. A little goes a long way.
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It's unarguable that the right shoes can really add elegance to an outfit and to the person who's wearing them. Take a pair of high heels, for instance. Suddenly, you're looking taller, shoulders back, body curved.
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The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.
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I remember the night when I was playing at Birdland, and Duke Ellington walked in wearing that cap of his and with all his elegance. The Duke then came backstage, and I was there with my band. That's the one thing I miss.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
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Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.
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I've always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I've always just loved watching Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. In all of those old movies from the '40s and '50s, women put themselves together so well, with a little bit of drama and elegance. That was fascinating to me growing up.
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Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
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Elegance means appreciating things as they are. There is a sense of delight and of fearlessness. You are not fearful of dark corners.
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We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.
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Elegance has nothing to do with fashion.
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I am very seldom interested in applications. I am more interested in the elegance of a problem. Is it a good problem, an interesting problem?
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My fancy dress costume of choice is... something 1920s or 30s, when there was still so much elegance and attention to detail. An excuse for ultimate dressing-up indulgence.
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It seems there's just no room left for elegance in this paper-plate, blue-jean world. And I, for one, think it's a shame.
